Getting started: Add docs for property actions

Use the just added example to add another section to the docs.
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Matthias Clasen 2013-07-24 01:43:14 -04:00
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$(srcdir)/images/getting-started-app6.png \
$(srcdir)/images/getting-started-app7.png \
$(srcdir)/images/getting-started-app8.png \
$(srcdir)/images/getting-started-app9.png \
$(srcdir)/images/exampleapp.png
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is launched with commandline arguments.</para>
<para>To learn more about GApplication entry points, consult the
GIO <ulink url="https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.36/GApplication.html#GApplication.description">documentation</ulink>.
GIO <ulink url="https://developer.gnome.org/gio/2.36/GApplication.html#GApplication.description">documentation</ulink>.</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting><xi:include href="../../../../examples/application1/exampleapp.c" parse="text"><xi:fallback>FIXME: MISSING XINCLUDE CONTENT</xi:fallback></xi:include></programlisting>
@ -902,5 +902,73 @@ example_app_window_init (ExampleAppWindow *win)
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>
</section>
<section>
<title>Properties</title>
<para>Widgets and other objects have many useful properties.</para>
<para>Here we show some ways to use them in new and flexible ways,
by wrapping them in actions with #GPropertyAction or by binding them
with #GBinding.</para>
<para>To set this up, we add two labels to the header bar in our
window template, named @lines_label and @lines, and bind them to
struct members in the private struct, as we've seen a couple of times
by now.</para>
<para>We add a new "Lines" menu item to the gears menu, which
triggers the show-lines action:</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting><xi:include href="../../../../examples/application9/gears-menu.ui" parse="text"><xi:fallback>FIXME: MISSING XINCLUDE CONTENT</xi:fallback></xi:include></programlisting>
</informalexample>
<para>To make this menu item do something, we create a property
action for the visible property of the @lines label, and add it to the
actions of the window. The effect of this is that the visibility
of the label gets toggled every time the action is activated.</para>
<para>Since we want both labels to appear and disappear together,
we bind the visible property of the @lines_label widget to the
same property of the @lines widget.</para>
<informalexample>
<programlisting>
...
static void
example_app_window_init (ExampleAppWindow *win)
{
...
action = (GAction*) g_property_action_new ("show-lines", priv->lines, "visible");
g_action_map_add_action (G_ACTION_MAP (win), action);
g_object_unref (action);
g_object_bind_property (priv->lines, "visible",
priv->lines_label, "visible",
G_BINDING_DEFAULT);
}
...
</programlisting>
<para>(<ulink url="https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/examples/application9/exampleappwin.c">full source</ulink>)</para>
</informalexample>
<para>We also need a function that counts the lines of the currently
active tab, and updates the @lines label. See the
<ulink url="https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/examples/application9/exampleappwin.c">full source</ulink>
if you are interested in the details.</para>
<para>This brings our example application to its final appearance:</para>
<informalfigure>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="getting-started-app9.png" format="PNG"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>

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